The Shocking Truth: All Sea Turtles Are Suffering From MicroPlastics Inside Their Bodies

According to a recent study on seven species of turtles, all of the turtles on all oceans in the world have microplastics in their bodies. Humanity should be shamed on what we have done to the Earth and living creatures on it!

Plastics seemingly appear everywhere in our oceans! And victims are, of course, sea creatures, including turtles.

Scientists estimate that we have discarded approximately 5 trillion pieces of plastic into the oceans, leading to severe pollution. These pieces are split into ultra-small particles that are often known as microplastics. The significant issue is that these microplastics penetrate into the digestive systems of sea creatures like mammals, turtles, and fish, and finally they get into our bodies when we eat seafood.

They have the little dimension at around maximum 5 millimeters; therefore, the microplastics can’t be detected by our naked eyes.

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Until now, scientists have not still determined exactly what levels of their influences on creatures living on oceans. However, the results must be not optimistic.

Scientists who work at the UK’s University of Exeter, Greenpeace Research Laboratories and Plymouth Marine Laboratory did research on 102 turtles from 7 species to analyze what they have had to face in such a polluted environment as now.

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What makes us surprised is that all of these turtles had micro plastics inside their guts. The number of found plastic particles reached more than 800 pieces. In other words, there were 8 pieces on each turtle’s digestive system on average. The research was only conducted on a small part of their guts. That means, in fact, they could have much more plastics.

Although the research has come to success, the scientists have not been happy at all with the results that all the turtles living on oceans in the world are suffering from microplastics inside their guts. Dr. Penelope Lindeque from the Plymouth Marine Laboratory said.